Venture Well
AUGUST 15, 2022
Course & Program grantee Mateo Neri offers advice for faculty seeking ways to integrate sustainable principles into their courses. The post How To Connect Design Students to Sustainability appeared first on VentureWell.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
AUGUST 15, 2022
Contributed by Dr. Carrie Santos, CEO of Entrepreneurs’ Organization. Sometimes you just need to be in the room—to feel the vibrations of energy and possibility all around you. When hundreds of EO entrepreneurs under the same roof connect with a speaker at precisely the same time, that energy is exhilarating. That is our Global Leadership Conference (GLC).
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Andreessen Horowitz
AUGUST 15, 2022
Our nation has a housing crisis. The demographic trends driving America’s housing market are impossible to ignore: our country is creating households faster than we’re building houses. Structural shortages in available homes for sale push housing prices higher, while young … The post Investing in Flow appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 15, 2022
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox. Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. . Concerns and controversy continue to swirl around Tesla’s so-called Full Self-Driving software beta.
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Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.
Y Combinator
AUGUST 15, 2022
Gusto ( YC W12 ) provides growing businesses with everything to take care of their team. Today, more than 200,000 businesses use Gusto for payroll, employee benefits, talent management, and more. And with the recent addition of Gusto Embedded , developers now use Gusto’s APIs and pre-build UI flows to embed payroll, tax filing, and payments infrastructure into products.
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Tomasz Tunguz
AUGUST 15, 2022
Omni announced a $27m Series A. Omni builds modern BI with a consistent data model using SQL. Omni picks up where Looker left off. Looker’s fundamental innovation, LookML, enabled one person to define the revenue metric & everyone else in the organization to use it. Omni extends that insight by building a modeling layer that learns about your data as you query it, evolving the data model with each subsequent query.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 15, 2022
Jenny Q. Ta. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Jenny Q. Ta is the CEO of GalaxE.io by HODL Assets. More posts by this contributor. How should web3 companies approach fundraising during a downturn? The financial market crash this year has had a unique effect on the web3 industry. Web3 companies are the newest members of the fintech ecosystem, and the current downturn marks the first major “hit” for the industry.
AsiaTechDaily
AUGUST 15, 2022
Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Chinese e-commerce SaaS platorm Dianxiaomi has raised $110 million in Series D funding led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Sequoia China, with participation from Tiger Global Management, GGV Capital, and Huaxing Growth Capital. This brings the company’s total funding in 2022 to $210 million.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 15, 2022
Gorgias , developing customer service tools for e-commerce companies, raised $30 million in new Series C capital in a round that boosted its valuation to $710 million. Transpose Platform and Shopify led the round and were joined by previous investors Jason Lemkin of SaaStr, Rajeev Dham from Sapphire Ventures, CRV and Alven. It’s been a few years since we profiled the company , whose total funding to date is $72.4 million.
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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.
Entrepreneur's Handbook
AUGUST 15, 2022
Because nobody is going to directly tell you if your startup idea sucks Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
AUGUST 15, 2022
Mycel , a South Korean startup making fungal-based biomaterials that can replace leather and meat, said it has raised $10 million (13 billion WON) in a pre-Series A round of funding. Co-founder and CEO of Mycel Sungjin Sah told TechCrunch that the company uses mycelium, a root-like structure of mushroom, to make leather substitutes that can be used in car seats and luxury cosmetic products, and fashion products like shoes, clothes and bags.
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
AUGUST 15, 2022
In about a month, an important moment will happen in the world of crypto/web3. The Ethereum blockchain will move from a proof of work consensus mechanism to a proof of stake consensus mechanism. This event is known as “The Merge” in Ethereum land. There are many reasons why this is an important moment for the world of crypto/web3, but to my mind the most important reasons are: 1/ The Merge reduces the carbon footprint of the Ethereum blockchain very significantly.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 15, 2022
The crypto sector’s first $1 billion deal, announced at the height of record surge in token prices last year, is disbanding as the market reverses much of the gains — and not everyone is pleased. Galaxy Digital said Monday it has terminated the $1.2 billion proposed acquisition of crypto custodian BitGo, a high-profile deal they announced in May last year, after the San Francisco-based startup failed to provide its audited financial statements for the year 2021.
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Entrepreneur's Handbook
AUGUST 15, 2022
My rollercoaster ride in Cryptoland Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».
TechCrunch
AUGUST 15, 2022
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) seems determined to keep the capital flowing to controversial WeWork founder Adam Neumann. The storied venture firm wrote its largest individual check ever, at $350 million, to Flow, Neumann’s new residential real estate company focused on rentals, the New York Times reported today. The funding round values Flow at over $1 billion, making it a unicorn before it even commences operations, which it plans to do in 2023, according to the Times.
Founder Bounty
AUGUST 15, 2022
So you want to be a digital nomad in Europe? Here are the things you want to do in order to make sure it will be a success while being a nomad in Europe. Europe and the Mediterranean is one of the worlds favorite destinations to become a digital nomad. The high quality of life, history and high-quality local healthcare means it is getting a lot of interest. 1) Follow the local culture In Europe, locals care about respect not only money.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 15, 2022
Atarraya , creator of Shrimpbox, a sustainable “plug-and-play” shrimp farming technology, is swimming to the surface after being in stealth mode since 2019. The Mexico City-based company emerges with new funding, $3.9 million in Series A dollars, and a new U.S. headquarters in Indianapolis. The company is claiming this is the “world’s first” technology of its kind, and Daniel Russek, founder and CEO of Atarraya, told TechCrunch that Shrimpbox was an idea he got after college in 2005 when he star
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Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.
Founder Bounty
AUGUST 15, 2022
There are a ton of things you could do to try to get your business or business proposal ready for the upcoming recession which economists are saying is more and more likely as inflation spikes, and the fed raises interest rates. Businesses like yours will have to adapt and we have put a few thoughts together. 1) watch your cash flow and start preparing cash reserves Cash is king, and you need to keep enough of it on hand to keep your company running.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 15, 2022
Lights, camera, another backhand winner down the line. It’s hard to imagine that in two weeks, Serena Williams is playing what could — and most likely will be — her last tennis tournament after 23 Grand Slams and decades of dazzling on center courts. She announced her retirement in the latest issue of Vogue magazine, writing that she will be “evolving” away from the sport to focus on family and her career as a venture capitalist.
Forward Cities
AUGUST 15, 2022
Pull-Up at Provident welcomes Durham-based small business owners and founders in all stages of their business journey to connect for networking, learning, and support. These convening events create an environment where entrepreneurs can turn to one another for knowledge and advice, and to gain access to relationships that will help them grow their businesses.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 15, 2022
There’s no end to digitizing the operations of small and medium businesses (SMBs) in the traditional retail sector across sub-Saharan Africa. In Nigeria alone, this industry, worth more than $200 billion, consists of over 40 million businesses of varying sizes, according to reports. Traditional retail in the country comprises small kiosks and open-air markets selling various products from food and beverages and groceries to personal care products and stationery.
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TechCrunch
AUGUST 15, 2022
Helbiz started out as a shared micromobility company but has since expanded to include ghost kitchens, media streaming and, most recently, a taxi service. The company reported its second-quarter earnings Monday after the bell. The startup was the first scooter operator to go public via the SPAC route , and many in the industry wish it wasn’t so after consistently meh earnings reports.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 15, 2022
There are many startups working on decentralized identities for the next generation of the internet. Four Tencent veterans want their offering.bit , an identity protocol built on the blockchain, to become the universal identification system in web3, like how emails and phone numbers became ubiquitous in Web 2.0, while giving users control over their own data rather than letting it reside in the platforms they use.bit-powered identities come in the form of its namesake domain name.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 15, 2022
No one expects every startup worth $1 billion to be ready to go public, but the collection of billion-dollar startups that are ready to list is larger than you might think. So much so that when the IPO window finally does reopen, we could be faced with a veritable torrent of public technology companies. A programming note: I am off this week. The excellent Anna Heim , who often helps write The Exchange and recently took over its weekend newsletter , will be filling in.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 15, 2022
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello, Crunchers! Wait, that’s kind of a weird nickname, as if you’re munching on granola. What should we call y’all? Never mind that. Tomorrow, we’re running a Twitter Spaces where Jacquelyn and Anita are talking about what’s new in the world of crypto with Ryan Selkis.
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Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.
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